2.2Formatted capacity

 

Formatted

Guaranteed

 

Model

capacity*

sectors

Bytes per sector

 

 

 

 

ST3160811AS

160 Gbytes

312,581,808

512

 

 

 

 

ST3160211AS

160 Gbytes

312,581,808

512

 

 

 

 

ST3120811AS

120 Gbytes

234,441,648

512

 

 

 

 

ST3120211AS

120 Gbytes

234,441,648

512

 

 

 

 

ST380811AS

80 Gbytes

156,301,488

512

 

 

 

 

ST380211AS

80 Gbytes

156,301,488

512

 

 

 

 

ST340211AS

40 Gbytes

78,165,360

512

 

 

 

 

*One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment and formatting.

2.2.1LBA mode

When addressing these drives in LBA mode, all blocks (sectors) are consecutively numbered from 0 to n–1,where n is the number of guaranteed sectors as defined above.

See Section 4.3.1, "Identify Device command" (words 60-61 and 100-103) for additional information about 48- bit addressing support of drives with capacities over 137 Gbytes.

2.3Default logical geometry

Cylinders

Read/write heads

Sectors per track

 

 

 

16,383

16

63

 

 

 

LBA mode

When addressing these drives in LBA mode, all blocks (sectors) are consecutively numbered from 0 to n–1,where n is the number of guaranteed sectors as defined above.

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Seagate ST3160211AS, ST3120811AS, ST3120211AS, ST3160811AS, ST380211AS Formatted capacity, Default logical geometry, LBA mode